Research Degrees: Health and Wellbeing
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Research Degrees: Health and Wellbeing
Allied health
- Dr Yetunde Dairo (physiotherapy, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, physical activity and intellectual disability, inclusion in physiotherapy education)
- Dr Keiran Henderson (cardiovascular health, cancer screening, education and professional issues)
- Dr Sharma Mallika (cognitive behavioural therapy, cultural adaptations in CBT, racial equity at the workplace as well as in the psychotherapeutic setting)
- Dr Cynthia Srikesavan (physiotherapy)
Coaching and performance pathways
- Dr Ben Clayton (sport and gender, gender and pedagogy, disability sport, and the sports media, ‘stories of sport participation’, alternative, narrative forms of representing sports-related research)
- Dr Fiona McCormack (sport volunteering; youth sport and physical activity)
- Dr Mark Homer (applied exercise physiology, endurance sport, specialising in rowing and training distribution)
- Nevin, JonPaul (optimisation of handcycling performance, tactical strength and conditioning and human performance optimisation in extremis contexts)
- Dr Ravina Huh (dance, balance and motor control related research, as well as dance shoe, sportswear, taekwondo, gymnastics, rhythmical gymnastics, fitness programmes and fitness garment related research)
Nursing
- Dr Gulen Addis (nursing education, covering professional development and expertise, and nursing management)
- Dr Marianthi Alexandropoulou (school nursing; community nursing; questionnaire development/reliability)
- Dr Geoffrey Amoateng (mental health nursing; culture and beliefs in healing)
- Dr Nandini Das (nursing)
- Dr Iran Heuboeck (nursing)
- Dr Sue Higham (Children, young people and families' experiences of illness and health care; Children's nursing practice; Children and young people's well-being; Ethnography in health care research)
- Dr Carlyle London (nurse education; community mental health nursing; recovery; and service users’ experience of mental health services)
- Dr Paul Maloret (mental health nursing, autism spectrum, learning disabilities and mental health)
- Dr Julia Williams (colo-rectal nursing, particularly patient experience; nursing education)
Psychology and criminology
- Dr Sena Agbo-Quaye (emotional expression and perception, decision making, sexual health, and existential and experiential areas of psychology)
- Dr Anne Chappell (active ageing and resilience; social justice)
- Dr Genevieve Cseh (psychology of creativity and the arts; flow; positive psychology)
- Dr Barbara Kingsley (aspects of cognition on student experience; teaching and learning of Research Methods in HE)
- Dr Sharma Mallika (cognitive behavioural therapy, cultural adaptations in CBT, racial equity at the workplace as well as in the psychotherapeutic setting)
- Dr Ciaran O’Keefe (paranormal psychology; restorative justice; offender reform)
- Dr Cheryl Pitt (family and child psychosocial wellbeing and health; adaptation to chronic illness in childhood; lifespan and adult development; career development and lifelong learning)
- Dr Ceri Sims (psychological development for children and adults, atypical developments, leadership, personality and coaching)
- Dr Matthew Smith (positive psychology; restorative justice)
Sport Therapy
- Dr Kevin Campbell-Karn (sport therapy; knee injuries)
- Dr Dearbhla Gallagher (concussion; sport and rehabilitation therapy)
Sport Psychology
- Dr Paul Morgan (sport psychology; resilience; elite team sport; psychology of sporting excellence)
- Lauren Tufton (sport psychology)
Social policy and Social work
- Dr Maria Ansbro (social work; assessment and management of risk; multi-agency child protection work; application of attachment theory)
- Dr George Clerk (child labour and rights of the child in developing countries, violence against children, environmental justice, sustainable development)
- Dr Desmond McDermott (social work, mental health practice, theory and research and shaping professional practice)
Current and recently completed research student projects
- Title: The Impact of Customers’ Perceptions and Expectations of Internet Service Quality Delivery on the Growth of Internet Services in Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Nigeria
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Maher, Dr Ali Bakir
- Title: Enhancing the well-being of young autistic people using positive psychology approaches.
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Smith, Dr Piers Worth, Professor Colin Martin
- Title: Survivorship in Patients Following PPCI: a qualitative study
- Supervisors: Dr Keiran Henderson, Julia Williams, Dr Matthew Smith
- Title: Re-examining the out-of-body-experience as a transpersonal process: Seeking empirical evidence of the mind outside the body, investigating the psychological framing and impact
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Smith, Dr Ciaran O’Keefe, Piers Worth
- Title: The relationship between complexity of emotions and close adult friendships
- Supervisors: Dr Ceri Sims , Dr Genevieve Cseh
- Title: The Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Non-Competitive Gym and Fitness Athletes - A Public Health Concern? Prevalence, Motivations for Use, Health Concerns and Prevention
- Supervisors: Dr Ben Clayton, Dr Fiona McCormack
- Title: Developing and Assessing the Impact of a Strengths-Based Leadership Programme on Wellbeing and Performance for the NHS
- Supervisors: Dr Matthew Smith, Dr Ceri Sims
- Title: Developing Interventions to Enhance Team Resilience in Sport
- Supervisors: Dr Paul Morgan, Dr Fiona McCormack, Mustafa Sarkar
- Title: Worried Well: Emotional Challenges Associated With Covid-19 Amongst Elderly Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) People With Comorbidities in the United Kingdom (UK)
- Supervisors: Dr Anne Chappell, Dr George Clerk
- Title: Can dietary intervention reduce injury incidence and optimise recovery time from injury in female football players?
- Supervisors: Dr Kevin Campbell-Karn , Dr Fiona McCormack
- Title: The Female Athlete: A sex-differences approach to training individualization
- Supervisors: Dr Mark Homer, Dr Ben Clayton
- Title: Effects of Rebound Exercise on Functional Independence, Balance and Fear of Fall Among Post Stroke Survivors
- Supervisors: Dr Yetunde Dairo , Dr Dearbhla Gallagher